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Athanasopoulos, Panos; Bylund, Emanuel; Casasanto, Daniel – Language Learning, 2016
This Special Issue of "Language Learning" presents an interdisciplinary state-of-the-art overview of current approaches to linguistic relativity. It contains empirical and theoretical studies and reflections on linguistic relativity from a variety of perspectives, such as associative learning, conceptual transfer, multilingual awareness,…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Interdisciplinary Approach, State of the Art Reviews
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Evans, Vyvyan – Language Learning, 2008
Recent work addressing the phenomenon of perceptual simulation offers new and exciting avenues of investigating how to model knowledge representation. From the perspective of language, the simulation approach has given rise to new impetus to work on models of language understanding (e.g., Zwaan, 2004, and references therein), and provides a way of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Role, Knowledge Representation, Language Processing
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Tendolkar, Indira – Language Learning, 2008
In his article, Chris Burt focuses on the relationship between time and autobiographical memory. The question Burt puts forward is whether temporal markers in reports on autobiographic memories reflect specific temporal information or result from rather complex cognitive processing of time-relevant knowledge. The aspect of time is inherent to the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Familiarity, Long Term Memory, Semiotics
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Tanaka, Shigenori – Language Learning, 1987
Students in freshmen English classes (N=273) at a Japanese university were given translation and acceptability judgment tests involving the verb "give" (in text). The selective use of two predicate structures for "give" in appropriate contexts of usage were examined: (1) GIVE (noun phrase NP and participial phrase PP) and (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education